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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-17
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady stanton Thinks
the Women There Dress ImmOd-

Mrs. elizabeth Cady stanton Thinks
the Women There Dress ImMOd-
estly.
Chicago Iuter-Ocean.
The toilets of English women are abso-
lutely corrupting to the young women who
go into what is called the best society. Even
children are surprised at the fashionable dis
play of arms and shoulders. The other
evening lady came so our dinner table in
full dress'' My little granddaughter APP
preached her slowly, and, after deliberately
surveying the novel costume, she remarked,
with chlld's simplicity:
why, you are not dressed; l see your
skin"
The lady, embarrassed. laughed and asked:
''But doesn't your mother wear low
dresses?"
''Oh, no." I answered for the absent
mother, in deprecating manner; land L
am afraid you will take cold from this eX-
pOsure."
And our guest did keep up slight cough
all the evening, and was evidently uncom-
Portable. But what is discomfort. sickness
or even death to women who worship at the
shrine of fashion!
l never see girl with bare shoulders
without recalling Oliver Wendell Holiness
description of Blanche Dreamer in his story
of Elsie Venner." At the tea table of
Widow Roment, Blanche was seated Ito
her great disgust, between the old village
doctor and the old village clergyman; while,
quite aloof from her, attractive young gen.
tlemen were chatting gayly with other
ladies of the party. Recovering her spirits
by degrees, she began playing off her
surfaces" upon the two old doctors, first
heaVinC IN her white and glarin9 right
shoulder TO the clergyman, and then heav-
ing up her white and glazing left shoulder
to the physician. The clergyman was
stunned, the physician was amused, but
both were tempted; and the girls man
euvre was quite typical of the tricks and
schemes, the traps and snares which are set
in the present fashionable society of the
more depraved strata of the English upper
ernst
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-17
society Jargon i'm washington.

The society girls at Washington. says the
correspondent of the Boston Herald, do not
consider it the proper thing to speak English
with the slightest tinge of Amelicanism. A
year ago society unanimously adopted what
is known as the English accent, and to an
outsider there was not much of any differ
ence between the talk that one heard in
London and Washington. Now. however,
by some peculiar and ineXplicable twist the
ladies are all doing their best to speak En-
glsh with a French accent, while the gen.
tlemen still try to be as Cockney as of Ole.
The result is more than iaughable. III e
jargon to one not accustomed to it is more
than distressing. 1t took society some
time to ''catch on" to the change, but the
transformation is now very nearly COM
plete. 1t is understood that the Misst
West, the daughters of the English minis
ter, are the leaders in this very latest fad,
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THE LOST CHORD.

Whispering tender words bent above her
Soft and gray the evening twilight fell
She 8 maiden fair and her lover
While sought a chance my love to tell.
UDear, for thee my heart is nearly breaking;
Wilt thou not my life forever bess?
And l paused. my heart too tull for speaking,
AS she answered loud and sweetly-"No!
-Flavel S. Mines in Harper's Bazaar.
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DEBATING TRAINS.

- st. Paul. Minneapolis
Pacific Express for Fargo
Jamestown, Mnnewau.
kan and Portland Daily 400 pm 1:s5o m
Fargo Elk. DAILY exceptSun) S:15a IN s:45a N
Dakota Elk. DAILY ........ S0Opm s:35 IN
Dining Cars, Pullman Sleepers elegant day coac IL,
second-class coaches and emigrant sleeping cara
between st. Paul, Minneapolis, Fargo Dsk., and
allpointstn Montana and Washington territories
Emigrants are carried out of st. Paul and Mime.
epolis on Pacific Express, leaving daily at 4 p. m
- Arrive Arrive
hhi'iNe IhAiNs. Nj inn polls st. Paul.
Atlantic Express Daily . 1850 a m 12:25p m
st. Paul & Min fast Elk. (Dy) sT;15a m +7:5O a m
St.Paul &M acc. (dy SUM 6:l0p m 6:45 m
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Through Pullman Sleepers daily betwee. st.
Paul and Wahpeton. Oak, on Dakota express.
Cityofice, St Paul. 1863 East Third street.
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Departing Trains.

La Crosse, Dubuque and st.
Louis Express. ........ .
Prairie du Chen, Milwau.
kee and Chicago Express
Camar and Davenport FIX.
Ortonville & Fargo Elk.
Milwaukee & Chicago Elk,
press. .... .............
Mortified, Faribault, Owa.
tonna, Austin and Mason
City.
La Crosse Passenger.
Aberdeen ard Mitchell Elk.
La Crosse and Dubuque
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Express.
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BARE NECKs In ENGLAND.

satin and bound with sashes costs, without
filling. from Sc to $40.
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Chicago & Milwaukee Ex- -
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Fast Express .. q IN, ON c-,-
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Mason City, Austin, Owa. '-' " IL
tonna, Faribault and
Northfeld. A 90,
Mitchell and Aberdeen Elk Ali .1o IL y:4o M
Chicago and Milwaukee LII Aii'ou Id
Express
Fast Mail and La Crosse r 30, n Soo ~
Chicago milwaukee and LII e'oo III
Prairie du Chen Elk Il 6.so
Fargo and Ortonville Ex S.03 IL % e 80 p,a,
st. Louis Dubuque and La - LII d 0'S' 3"
Crosse Elk press B q.1s |,
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Monday. D except Saturday eA'ep'
Adoltiona al. trains between st. Paul and Minns
apohsvia Short Line leave both cities bnnrIs
iorparticularsses Short Line time tables.
1eS E.t MI Sc a. oh ~; .eAet Agent,
AZ I.as' h.ro street. Brown Knebel, Ticket
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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
New "Overland Route"
Portland, Or, and the Pacific Northwest

The ''Pioneer Lineo between st
Paul, Minneapolis. Moorhead and
Fargo, and the ONLY Line runnin
Dining Cars and pullman Sleeper.
Eetween Those Points.
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THE WOMAN'S GLOBE.
Some of the Reasons Why So Few Real
Men Grace Society With Their
Presence.
Top-Lofty Prices Paid by People of Wealth
for Flowers of Fashions
Favor.
How an Actress Proved That Her
Womanhood Was Much Stronger
Than Her Art.

Opinion of An Eminent Observer
on Low-NeckedD ress Wearing
by English Women.
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WISCONSIN CENTRAL LINE.

The Palace Sleeping and Parlor Car Route G,
Chicago.
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-07
THE WATER SYSTEM.
The Rivers and Tributaries of the Great
NalIey-Artesian Naters-Etc

The Rivers aud Tributaries of the Great
Valley-Artesian Waters-Etc.
To the east, bordering the rich valley
lands tributary to Chico is the Sacramento
river, which takes its rise in the semicircle
of mountains at the head of the valley.
Opposite Chico it is clear mountain
stream and navigable for large vessels. 1t
washes the western border of the country
tributary to Chico for distance of forty
miles. This forty miles of water front
affords not only navigation but an abund-
ance of water for stock feeding upon the
rich pastures that adjom the river. The
soil of the bottom land that borders the
river is so little above the river level. and
the soil is such light alluvium that the
water of the stream percolates through it
and keeps it moist and in fine condition
for grain, grasses, fruit trees; and. in fact.
all kinds of vegetation through the whole
year. In addition to the great Sacramento,
there is n
PERFECT SYSTEM OF CLEAR MOUNTAIN
STREAMS
Which come down from the Sierra Neya-
das. There are Deer, Spring, Mud, Big
Chico, Little Chico. Edgar Little Butte
and Big Butte creeks that course down
from the canyons of the great range, flow
through the rich alluvial lands and Join
their waters to the Sacramento on the way
down to the Golden Gate The waters of
these streams are all as clear as crystal, and
they furnish an inexhaustible supply for
all agricultural purposes. In the foothills
every canyon, gorge, ETC., has its stream Of
water, and along all the foot of the noun
tains wherever there has been fractures in
the rock strata, springs of pure water burst
forth Wells of cold, lasting water can be
had anywhere on the upper plains by dig
ging twenty feet
WELLS AND ARTEsIAN WATER.
No effort to find flowing artesian wells
has as yet been pushed to success, but
wells have been sunk from thirty to forty
feet in depth to thick gravel stratum,
and an inexhaustible supply of water was
found that rose in the wells to within
eight or ten feet of the surface From
these wells it has been found impossible to
exhaust the flow of water by any steam
pump. The pumps of the Chico Water
Works have capacity of 10000 900 gal
Ions per day, and even with this enormous
power they are unable to lower the water
in these wells. If irrigation should be
found useful in any kind of agriculture
that may be hereafter introduced into this
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requisite to the maintenance of animal
life. The indigenous grasses were rank,
juicy and nutritious. There were wild
oats, several varieties of native clover,
bunch, fescue and gramma grasses. There
was clear cool water in abundance, and great
oak groves for shade, and along the
streams almost impenetrable thickets of
sycamore, poplar, cottonwood, willow,
alder and box elder, covered with creep
ing, clinglng vines that gave shelter. In
a few years the plains that now produce
their millions of cereals were covered with
bands of half-wild horses, herds of long
horned cattle and focks of sheep So
favoring were the climatic conditions, so
rich and abundant the grasses, that the
products of these pastures were in demand
in all the markets. Butte became noted
for the speed and endurance of its horses,
for fat, juicy beef, and fine wool and good
mutton. 1t was a paradise for herd
owners and herders. Their stock was their
pride and boast, and these led to improve
ment in breeds. The wild horses gave
way to better running and trotting blood,
the long-horns were superseded by Dur
hams, Devons and Herefords, and the
kempy y-wooled Mexican sheep were sun
planted by the hardy Merino, the plump
Southdown, and the big Cotswold and
Leincester with their fossy fieeces. This
stock spirit has survived all the
changed conditions that have over
taken agriculture, and these same
herd owners still love and raise good horses
and cattle. Competition has led to the in
PRODUCTION of the best strains of blood that
have sprung from the loins of old Messen-
ger, the strains that have been in the front
III every contest on the track and road for
the past century, and to the introduction
of the best blood descended from an an
cestry that has never looked through Il col
lar since the first Arab horse wore sad
die. Many tens of thousands of dollars
have been expended for fine horses in the
past thirty years, and the same care has
been taken to improve blooded cattle,
sheep and swine. There are some ranches
that have been largely devoted to stock
breeding, but generally the stock men
have adopted the migratory plan with
their animals.
In the spring. as soon as the grasses in
the foothills and higher mountains have
grown sufficiently, the stock is taken to the
Sierras or the Coast Range, and there in
the higher attitudes and cooler tempera-
lures it is grazed till autumn, when it is
brought back to the valley ranches In this
way all the stubble and straw of the great
wheat ranches are utilized An account
of the stock ranches of the Chico district
would be too extended for this article. A
brief mention Of one or two of them will
be sufficient to illustrate this industry.
FINE STOCK AND GRAIN RANCH.
L. II. Mcintosh, one of the most
intelligent breeders, has an extensive
ranch, mostly devoted to grain-raising.
Seven hundred acres are devoted to
pasture. He has fifty head of work horses
and mules, (which he breeds and breaks. In
addition to these he has thirty head of
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:. TEE CITY OF ROSES.

Ono of the Most Enchanting Places of
Residence Upon the Continent.
In the center of this great garden spot
of the coast, in a beautiful opening of the
great forest oaks, on the banks of two
clear, rapid, mountain streams, sur
rounded by vast amphitheater of hills and
mountains, is Chico, the loveliest city OF
the plain" To know the place you must
see it. No pen can portray the fertile
plains, rich with the promise of golden
speaking centuries, the clear, cool streams,
bordered with tangled vines and prim-
roses, the semi-circle of mountains around,
the Sacramento whose waters divide the
green valley, cleaning in the sun like q
broad ribbon of silver, the city embowered
in avenues of elms, popiars, naples, euca-
lyptus, aeacias, magnolias and palms, whose
branches interlace and form green arch
over the streets, the houses embarked with
roses, honey-suckles, geraniums, and an in
finite variety of blooming flowers, the
groups of healthy, happy children, and
the warm welcome sure to greet the
stranger. All this is beyond the power of
pen and pencil.
GROWTH AND POPULATION.
Chico is little more than twenty years
old, almost minor in age, but a busy,
well-developed youth. The population is
now 5000, all living in comfortable
homes, covering full section of $40
acres. The visitor is impressed with the
wide, shaded streets, and next that the
house are in large lots with ample room
for grass, flowers and trees. The city plat
was laid out by General Bidwell, with
streets of ample width, but still not too
wide for convenience.
The town at first embraced only 100
acres but as the country developed the
trade and population increased so rapidly
as to demand more room, and addition
followed addition, till now it embraces
four times its original area. At the pres
ent rate of growth and increase, other
additions will soon be demanded, and no
! doubt made. Within the past three years
Hon. Allen Henry has divided three tracts
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landings to the Sierra mining, numbering
and grazing regions These big teams and
wagons haul many thousand tons of freight
in season. To the Eastern stranger these
freighting ontfts with twelve large, fine
animals, horses or mules, with a big four
or tiye-ton wagon and two or three smaller
ones trailing behind, are novel sight
To the novice it appears impossible for
such team to climb the steep mountain
grades and make the sharp turns on the
narrow roads, but they do it with ease and
safety This mountain freighting is an
important business feature. The sales of
goods carried, the manufacture and repair
of wagons, the shoeing of horses, the max
ing and repair of harness, the feeding of
horses and mules, and the goods consumed
by the teamsters, aggregates sums much
greater than would be supposed. 1t will
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strated facts of third OF century's till
age. The alluvial soil of that valley sec
tion is so deep, so light and porous that it
seems to be capable of self-drainage in case
of an excessive rainfall, and of self-irriga-
tion from the pereolating water in the deep
underlying gravel stratum below when the
rainfall is deficient. The exact statistics are
wanting, but it is safe to say that in the
country tributary to Chico there are l00,-
600 acres of land annually growing wheat
and barley, with crop rate gilmore than
twenty bushels to the acre, or nearly twice
the acreage yield of the whole United
States. The annual yield is more than
100000 bushels, or $4,000 tons, or 5000
ten-ton carload, or 800 twenty-car trains.
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State, steam pumps could flood the land
from these wells. There is now little
doubt that flowing wells could be had in
any part Of this county at comparatively
small expense. At this present writing
there is new artesian well near by, in
the Sacramento valley, that flows twelve
feet above the ground, and the depth of
the well is less than 1000 feet There is,
however, no part of this coast that needs
irrigation so little as the country around
Chico. The supply of artesian water has
been spoken of to show that the supply is
ample and can be had at little expense if
ever needed. The water supply of the
Chico district can be summed up and con-
cluded by saying that no part OF this con-
tinent has more ample or better supply
of pure, clear, cold water from rivers,
creeks, springs and wells than is found
here
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ODD FELLOWS, TEMPLE,

tation by rail and river, there are eight
stage lines that run from Chico to the
outlying country. There is a daily lire
southwest, across the Sacramento river to
Willows. distance of fifty miles; a daily
line southeast, to Oroville, twenty-four
miles; two dailies west, to Orland, in
Colusa county a tri-weekly southwest, to
Colusa, the county seat Of Colusa county,
sixty miles distant; tri-weekly northeast,
sixty-iye miles, to Prattville, Plumas
county; tri-weekly east, twenty eight
miles, to Powelton, Butte county, and a
tri-weekly to Cherokee and Deadwood,
Butte county, thirty miles.
In all, the stage lines that run in and
out of Chico aggregate more than three
hundred miles, and employ large num-
Der of men and horses. These lines are
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FRosTLEss FOOTHILLS.
THE CLIMATE.

The Causes which Gives California it's
Wonderful Semi-Tropic Conditions.
To the tourist and the home-seeker the
climate of this portion of the State, sit
uated between the seth and 10th parallels
of latitude, is unaccountable. That it is
winterless, without snow or ice, is to them
almost impossible to believe, while the
country east of the Sierra Neyadas, on
the same latitude, has long winters, with
snow, ice, and bleak winds. For the BEN
eft of these newcomers ihe influences that
make our climate so mild and favorable
are here briefly but comprehensively given.
CLIMATIC CAUSES.
In all parts of the earth there are two
great determining causes of climate-as-
Economical and geographical. The former
of these act uniformly on the same lines of
latitude everywhere, while the latter are
the modifying influences. 1t is to these
last that we must look for the marked DIFF
ferences between our Pacific climate and
that of the same latitude beyond the
Sierras. The frst of the geographical in
fiuences is the remarkably low elevation
of the Sacramento valley, which is in
marked contrast to most of the valleys of
this continent. Sacramento city, 100 miles
from the Golden Gate, still feels the tidal
pulsations and Chico, almost hundred
miles farther from the ocean, is less than
200 feet above tide water.
OCEAN CURRENTS.
The second cause is the ocean currents,
that rise in the tropical regions of the In
dian ocean, sweeping around the earth's
great circle, wash the whole of this coast
and temper the climate in the same way
that the Gulf Stream modifies the climate
of England and France.
MOUNTAIN BARRIERS.
The third and greatest influence, and
the one that Is almost entirely overlooked,
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fine bred mares, from which he breeds car
riage, road and track horses. These mares
combine the best blood both thoroughbred
and trotting. He has several Youngsters
of great promise, which will undoubtedly
give a good account of themselves in speed
contests hereafter Mr.. Mcintosh has
alfalfa and native clover pastures. good
water and shade for his stock. He also is
large breeder and grazer of fine sheep.
His sheep pastures are in the foothills of
the Sierra Nevadas, where he has 5000
merino sheep. Mr.. McIntosh's tastes are
for the best, and he proposes to increase
his stock and pastures, and decrease the
areas Of his wheat fields.
LEADING STOCK FARM.
d. NJ. Reavis is perhaps the largest
stock breeder in Butte county. His home
ranch embraces 5000 acres of pasture.
On this he has 1000 horses and mules,
2G0 head of full-blooded or graded cattle,
and 1000 hogs. For years he has
expended large sums for the best breeding
stock. The blood of Reavis' Blackbird,
with a record of 2:22, is the basis of many
of his brood mares, of which he has 800
head. These combine the blood of Boston,
Lexington, Glencoe and many other stout
strains of gallopers with that of Hamble-
tonian, Clay, Mambrino and Grand Ba-
shaw. He is now breeding to Blackbird,
Monroe Chief and Steinway for the track
and road, and to Percherons for the plow
and wagon. He has thousand acres of
alfalfa and two thousand acres of native
grasses. For rich grasses, ample shade and
abudance of clear, pure water, his pastures
are unsurpassed in the world.
In connection with this home establish
ment Mr.. Reavis has mountain ranch in
Dixey valley, where he has 5000 head of
cattle and 500 head of horses.
There are many farms in this Chico dis
trict where butter is made, which brings
the highest price in market This indus
try is rapidly growing, and in the near fu-
ture will assume much greater importance
CEREAL PRODUCTION.
As the grazing followed the golden era,
SO in the transition grain-growing followed
grazing. As the means of transportation
multiplied and quickened, and the markets
| of the world were brought within reach,
grain growing increased, the plow invaded
the grazing grounds of the valleys, and
drove the fiocks and herds before it. The
l
although gradual, was rapid, and in
! twenty years after the first burrows were
| turned three-fourths of the land of the
| valley and plains was under tillage The
thick forest trees disappeared, leaving only
scattered representatives the tangled
| thickets were grubbed out, and in their
places were wide areas of golden grain, as
| far as the eye could reach From being
4 .T IL O..
become the largest wheat-producing region
in the Union and powerful factor in the
cereal markets of the world. The Chico
| district is
ONE OF THE BEST WHEAT AND BARLEY
| SECTIONS
OF the coast. Nowhere is there higher
yield and nowhere a surer crop. These
assertions are supported by the demon